Skylanders Giants: Chill

Hello Portal Masters,

I am so happy to post this today!

It is some more about Chill! She was now "officially" revealed in Nintendo Power (oh, I sooo hope to see her in action soon!)

Catchphrase: Ice to see you!

Chill is the sworn guardian and personal protector of the snow queen. As captain of the queen's guard, her many heroic deeds earned her the respect of the entire ice kingdom. But when the cyclops army began to expand their empire into the northern realms, the snow queen was taken prisoner during her watch and chill has never forgiven herself for letting it happen. Ashamed and embarrassed, she left the ice kingdom behind and sworn never to return until she could reclaim her honor. Now as a member of the skylanders, she remains courageous and strong, while always on the lookout for her lost queen.

I like that story but I would really like if they would DO something with it!
Have an episode where you release the Ice Queen and if you have Chill get an extra seen!
Same with other characters...

When Nintendo Power revealed Swarm, there was a gameplay video soon after.

So I have my fingers crossed ;)

Talk to you soon!

Charon

Skylanders Giants: Another Blurry Picture

Hello Portal Masters,

I found another picture that is quiet interesting:

 

So, no new news, except a "official picture" of their Starter and Portal Owner Packs. 

But that is all we already knew, except, what is there in the bottom?

The character poster? OMG!

Let's make it bigger...

Ah, good old blurry pictures.. how I missed you.. not!
When will they stop destroying my eyeside?

But I think we can still get lots of information from this.
All characters seem to be in an order: First Giant, Second Lightcore, Third, Fourth and Fith: Series 2, Last New Skylanders.

We again see a tiny bit of Flashwing, Sprocket and the new Giants.

Now, I will try to give guesses of what we see here. Most of it  will be because of the colours we see.

So, I am pretty certain about most of these to be honster.
Stealth Elf is a gues more than seeing, but it really does not look like Camo and I just want all my elfs to get remodeled ;)

Another interesting side note: They will (if everything was right) NOT repose Wham Shell, Camo Sunburn or Warnado, all of them beeing released last. Maybe popularity wasn't that much of a factor after all...

The other "missing ones" would be Boomer, Dinorang, Voodood and Ghost Roaster.

I don't like that Sunburn and Ghost Roaster aren't remodeled, since people who did not want or have the money for Adventure Packs will not get them this time either.

Apart from that, I will miss Warnado, Camo and Wham Shell, but on the other hand, I will still have my Series 1 versions of them all, so I will be fine.

I will update post a new character list soon!

See you next time!

Charon

Skylander: Trading Card Game

Hello Portal Masters,

I found something about the Skylanders Trading Card Game:

I like that you can see Hot Head a little better on the "Flowpack".
I don't know if I will start collecting, but you never know.

But if they really go on sale September 20th, that means we need lots of information in August!
But I did expect that anyway.

Will you collect these?
Let me know in the comments!

Until next time

Charon

Skylanders: Sidekicks

Hello Portal Masters,

The Skylanders Sidekicks are coming out soon

I will not talk a lot about them, because they do not serve any purpose in the games and seem to be hard to get (especially outside the US).
So I will just post some pics.
Please do not ask me how to get them. It has something to do with Frito Lay Chips. 

There are 4 Sidekicks. 

Trigger Snappy

Whisper Elf

Terrabite

Gill Runt

In some youtube videos you can already see them.
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eBoOmqRPA

I hate that they only did 4 elements and I don't like the fact that I cannot get them.

So, there will be no further coverage on this matter for now ;)

CU next time

Charon

Skylanders: Sourcers for Information

Hello fellow Portal Masters,

I wanted to take the time to present the sources of my information.

Because although I always missed a Skylanders Blog that has all the news and started my own, you can still find tons of information on the internet.

So here are my top Skylander Sites.

1. Dark Syro (http://www.darkspyro.net/)
By far, the forum here is the best ressource. But of course, you can never be sure about the things posted.
But still they post lots of stuff and the people in the forums are nice... most of the time.

2. Family Gamers TV and Geek Dad
http://www.youtube.com/user/familygamertv?feature=results_main
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/

They do visit the exhibitions and post great videos. They are slower than the forums on Dark Spyro, but the quality of the videos is really good, although in interviews I would sometimes like a little more original and specified questions, but I guess since most of the answers will just be "can't tell" they try to get the best results.
Also, the information are sometimes wrong, but that is because Activision seems to change a lot of things all the time (Booster Pack just having one Giant and no other figures...)

3. Coin-Op TV (http://www.youtube.com/user/coinoptv/featured)
Nice Character analyzes, nice video updates. The information on existing figures and Skylanders Spyros Adventure are better than the ones about Giants.

4. Cheeseworks Planet (http://www.youtube.com/user/CheeseworksPlanet/featured)
If you need a walk through the game they might help.

5.Skylanders official Site, youtube Chanel and Facebook site
http://www.facebook.com/SkylandersGame
http://www.skylanders.com/giants
http://www.youtube.com/user/SkylandersGame

Official information, not the quickest, but reliable.

So, this is it for me.

Let me know in the comments where you look for infos!

CU soon!

Charon

Skylanders Giants: Chill and regular fire Skylander

Hello Portal Masters,

I just wanted to share better pictures of Chill and the new Fire Skylander (which I will call Hot Dog, because I read it somewhere and it fits perfectly!).

The more I see them, the more I like them :)

I hope I will be able to post more exiting things soon (especially gameplay footage or the rest of the new characters or series 2 and light core variations)!

Charon

Skylanders Giants: Swarm

Hello Portal Masters,

today I tried to take a closer look at Swarm.

I already posted some of his stuff, but let's try to get the full picture.

(source: http://www.thehdroom.com/news/Skylanders-Giants-Swarm-Character-Reveal/10972)

So, he is obiously the Air Giant and his toy looks like this:

I do like the insect idea, since that is something new. 

His story though, I don't like that much:

"Swarm was once a prince from a proud race of mysterious insect warriors that had built their entire civilization inside a giant honeycombed pyramid. Growing up as one of the 9,000 members of the royal family, he was never permitted to leave the hive. But unlike his brethren, there was a magical quality to Swarm that caused him to grow much larger than the rest of his kind. No longer able to fit amongst the rest of his colony, the young prince broke the long standing tradition and stepped out into the open world - where his size and strength would be put to good use in the legendary battle between the Giants and the Arkeyans."

It is just a little borring in a way.

But ok, they never do much with the stories anyway. 

So let's look at his powers:

First, he shoots stings:

(source: http://www.youtube.com/user/SkylandersGame)

Ok, that was expected.

Secondly, his second attack is a combo melee thing: 

Hm, yeah, nothing we haven't seen before.

Ok, so what else can he do? 

Well, in the video that is all we see. 

So, that was kind of disappointing. 

According to this, let me rate Swarm:

Looks: 4/5

Orignality: 3/5 

Powers: 1/5

Variety: 2/5

Overall Rating: 2.5/5

That did not go well. He just seems a little borring right now, but I hope that will change as soon as we get to see some more powers (this just seem to be the two basic starting ones).

What do you think?

You enjoy the bee?

Let me know and talk to you soon!

Charon